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As some readers have seen me mention before, we have one refurbished Kindle here (an original Kindle) and it was indistinguishable from a new Kindle when it arrived and has performed flawlessly (it just got back from a one month trip to the wilds of South Dakota). And I also have a Kindle DX, which I use (mostly) for PDF's that don't convert well (or I don't feel like converting), as well as a few books from Amazon that have maps or photos that just look better on the big screen.